Energy fluctuations in driven systems
Energy fluctuations in driven systems
- Event time: 11:30am
- Event date: 30th November 2011
- Speaker: Professor Yariv Kafri (Technion)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
When an isolated system is brought in contact with a heat bath, its final energy is random and follows the Gibbs distribution. The system’s energy can also be changed by performing non-adiabatic work using a cyclic process. Almost nothing is known about the resulting energy distribution in this set-up, which is in particular relevant to recent experimental progress in cold atoms, ion traps, superconducting qubits and other systems. Here we show that when the non-adiabatic process consists of many repeated cyclic processes, the resulting energy distribution is universal and different from the Gibbs ensemble. We predict the existence of two qualitatively different regimes with a continuous second-order-like transition between them. We illustrate our approach by performing explicit calculations for both interacting and non-interacting systems. Time permitting, I will also discuss more recent results on driven systems coupled to a dissipative bath.
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